I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.


Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson (ed. 1807)

Samuel Johnson Quotes

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage...

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage...

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage...

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage...